A Work in Progress: Treasure Hunters



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Treasure Hunters
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step 1 of 6

Spent a lot of time cutting out the fancy wrought iron work from the door and then fixing the door by cloning and painting.
The wrought iron was placed as iron work along the wall, a secret handle in the rock, and a fancy piece of treasure on the ground. It is anyones guess as to what it might have been used for. The archaeologists will need to do some research on it when they take all the treasures back home.
The fancy gold ornament on the left was put in the hands of the standing model. The top of the column on the right was made into an ornamental vase and put into the hand of the sitting model.

Creation of Treasure Hunters: Step 1
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step 2 of 6

Used polar coordinated filter to turn the source into a fancy shield which I placed leaning up against a step. It's another treasure for the archaeologists to research.

Creation of Treasure Hunters: Step 2
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step 3 of 6

Part of the door copied, duplicated and flipped to make this oval shape which was warped into a more round shape and fitted into the eye area of the rock monster.

Creation of Treasure Hunters: Step 3
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step 4 of 6

Cut out the rock face, added door into mouth and circular door pieces into eye area. Used bricks from source to replace the brick wall on the sides of the rock face. Desaturated the parts to match the rock face color. I adjusted those colors later to put a bit more color back into the scene.

Creation of Treasure Hunters: Step 4
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step 5 of 6

Added.... path with the extra steps, wrought iron work on top of wall, storm clouds, model, put the golden sculpture into her hand and made it glow, added a shadow on the ground, used the cutout step from the source to add some texture to all the steps and make them look a bit more uniform.

Creation of Treasure Hunters: Step 5
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step 6 of 6

Added second model and adjusted colors to fit the scene. Made a strange sculptured vase from the fancy column top and placed into her hand for inspection.
Added bones, put the not so secret handle into the rock to make treasure hunters wonder what it does. Painted in lightning, did a bit of dodge and burn and final color adjustments.

Creation of Treasure Hunters: Step 6
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Final result

Creation of Treasure Hunters: Final Result

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